Please join the History Department at Brown University on Saturday, September 29, for a comparative lecture forum featuring the latest historical scholarship on consumer culture. Specialists in American, European, and African history will discuss the challenges involved in connecting the history of consumerism to the history of state building and the construction of national identities.

SPEAKERS:

Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College
Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University

TIME AND PLACE:

Saturday, September 29, 2000

10 AM - 3:30 PM (Lunch break: 12-1:30)
Reception to follow

Smith-Buonnano Hall, Room 106
(Pembroke Campus)

For more information, please call the Brown History Department (401)863-2131 Fax (401) 863-1040

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